Economic history

This contributed volume explores the political economy and socioeconomic aspects of the Greek Financial Crisis both within the country's borders and as part of the global economy.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive synthesis of the literature on growth-linked securities, which are an equity-like method of financing for sovereigns.

This book, the first of two volumes, explores the legacy of Trevor Winchester Swan, often described as Australia's greatest ever economist.

This book analyzes the impact of the digital economy on customer satisfaction, shopping experience, resistance to change, script theory, and loyalty.

This book explores the history of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its place within capitalist development.

This book repositions the groundbreaking Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 as the first large-scale multilateral North-South dialogue on global financial governance.

This book brings together analysis on the conditions of agricultural sectors in countries and regions of the world's peripheries, from a wide variety of international contributors.

This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century.

What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more?

This book presents an unusual view on one of the most influential periods in world economic history: the Early Globalization.

This book reveals the business history of the Australian Government Clothing Factory as it introduced innovative changes in the production and design of the Australian Army uniform during the twentieth century.

This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin's rule.

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages.

This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia.

Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the history of African business.

This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458.

This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system.

This volume focuses on the analysis and measurement of business cycles in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS).

This book discusses contemporary banking and monetary policy issues from the perspective of the Austrian School of Economics.

This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiep along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country's shift towards market socialism.

This book studies past economics from anthropological, archaeological, historical and sociological perspectives.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies.

NATO is facing a unique crisis questioning its existence and future.

This book discusses the economics of transport infrastructure and the economic theorizing around transport infrastructure from 1850 to today.

This book is an introduction to the history of - and current measurement practice of - inflation for the United Kingdom.

This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past.

This book is an edited collection by leading insurance historians, examining the historical role of reinsurance (the insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Japan.

This book, the second of two volumes, is inspired by the famous philosopher of India, Kautilya, author of the first book on economics in the world, Arthashashtra.

This book explores how in a rapidly shifting world, higher education has found itself at the crux of socio-economic, demographic, and technological transformations.

This book examines the macroeconomic and regulatory impact of domestic and international shocks on the South African economy resulting from the 2009 financial crisis.

This book illustrates the role of international economic advisors in the development of Israel's economic policies.

This book gathers several important texts to offer an overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.

The book examines the evolution of the political, social and economic life of Cyprus from its conquest by Richard the Lionheart to the 1950 referendum on Enosis.

This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy.

This anthology honors the life and work of American economist John E.

This book challenges amoral views of finance as the leading realm in which mammon - wealth and profit - is pursued with little overt regard for morality.

Globalisation and the governance of the international financial system have arrived at the crossroads, where either a coherent level playing field for the cross-border activities of banks and multinational enterprises is settled upon, or the risk of another crisis will build up again.

This book explores the vital role of merchants within early modern China.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This edited volume discusses the life and scholarship of Friedrich Engels.

This book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history.

This book provides a rigorously chronological journey through the economic history of modern Spain, always with an eye opened to what happens in the international economy and a focus on economic policy making and institutional change.

This expanded and enlarged third edition of Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos' popular Who's to Blame for Greece?

In recent decades, new endogenous growth theory has become popular but the ideas are not new.

This book outlines the origins of Danish Capitalism and prosperity, from a poor and devastated minor state in the 19th century to a consolidated universal mixed economy welfare state at the end of the 20th century.

This volume discusses the impact of Financial Economics, Growth Dynamics, and the Finance & Banking sector in the economies of countries.

This book explores the impact of railroads on 19thcentury Russian peasant collectivism.

This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner.

This book explores the origins and development of the asset management profession in Britain as a distinct activity within financial services, independent of banks and stockbrokers.